Originally Posted by
JEFFJAGUAR
MC and visa regs prohibit the use of the dcc scam unless the potential scamee agrees to be scammed. Period. So having terminals that do not give the potential scamee the choice of whether or not he or she wishes to be scammed would not meet mc/visa specs. I can't believe any such terminals exist; of course remember the clerks in most of these situations don't have a clue; don't know this is a scam and are probably told just push the dcc button and of course few of the scamees know what's going on anyway so they get very few complaints.
Yes, that's the rule. But in reality, 90% of the POS in China choose DCC by default and have to be disabled by some tricks, and 10% of these POS even don't let you opt out (see moondog's post about a 农行 machine in Shenzhen).
Clearly all the above violate. But what can we do about it...?
My understanding about this Novotel POS is that its DCC is on by default, and there has to be some trick to turn it off. The staff just doesn't know how to turn it off with a swipe, but knows keying-in won't trigger DCC.